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enWe’re Seeking 18 Dynamic Leaders to Help Us Meet Our Goalshttp://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/we-re-seeking-18-dynamic-leaders-help-us-meet-our-goals
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The World Bank Group is searching internally and globally for 18 experienced and driven professionals to help achieve <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2013/04/17/ending_extreme_poverty_and_promoting_shared_prosperity" rel="nofollow">two ambitious goals</a>: reducing the number of people living on less than $1.25 a day to 3% by 2030 and promoting shared prosperity by fostering the income growth of the bottom 40%. These leaders will be crucial to our plan to improve the way we work, so we can deploy the best skills and expertise to our clients everywhere, to help tackle the most difficult development challenges around the world. <br /><br />
Last month, <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2013/10/12/green-light-for-new-world-bank-group" rel="nofollow">the Bank Group’s member countries endorsed our new strategy</a> which for the first time leverages the combined strength of the <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/about" rel="nofollow">WBG institutions</a> and their unique ability to partner with the public and private sectors to deliver development solutions backed by finance, world class knowledge and convening services.<br /><br />
Instrumental to the success of our strategy is the establishment of Global Practices and Cross-Cutting Solution Areas, which will bring all technical staff together, making it possible for us to expand our knowledge and better connect global and local expertise for transformational impact. Our ultimate goal is to deploy the best skills and expertise to our clients at the right time, and become the leading partner for complex development solutions.<br /><br />
We are accepting applications for the Global Practice senior directors who will lead these pools of specialists in the following areas: <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=8454041&amp;piPK=8454059&amp;theSitePK=8453353&amp;JobNo=132476&amp;contentMDK=23158967&amp;order=descending&amp;sortBy=job-req-num&amp;location=&amp;menuPK=8453611&amp;JobType=Managerial&amp;JobGrade=GI" rel="nofollow">Agriculture</a>; <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=8454041&amp;piPK=8454059&amp;theSitePK=8453353&amp;JobNo=132480&amp;contentMDK=23158967&amp;order=descending&amp;sortBy=job-req-num&amp;location=&amp;menuPK=8453611&amp;JobType=Managerial&amp;JobGrade=GI" rel="nofollow">Education</a>; <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=8454041&amp;piPK=8454059&amp;theSitePK=8453353&amp;JobNo=132483&amp;contentMDK=23158967&amp;order=descending&amp;sortBy=job-req-num&amp;location=&amp;menuPK=8453611&amp;JobType=Managerial&amp;JobGrade=GI" rel="nofollow">Energy and Extractives</a>; <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=8454041&amp;piPK=8454059&amp;theSitePK=8453353&amp;JobNo=132487&amp;contentMDK=23158967&amp;order=descending&amp;sortBy=job-req-num&amp;location=&amp;menuPK=8453611&amp;JobType=Managerial&amp;JobGrade=GI" rel="nofollow">Environment and Natural Resources</a>; <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=8454041&amp;piPK=8454059&amp;theSitePK=8453353&amp;JobNo=132488&amp;contentMDK=23158967&amp;order=descending&amp;sortBy=job-req-num&amp;location=&amp;menuPK=8453611&amp;JobType=Managerial&amp;JobGrade=GI" rel="nofollow">Finance and Markets</a>; <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=8454041&amp;piPK=8454059&amp;theSitePK=8453353&amp;JobNo=132493&amp;contentMDK=23158967&amp;order=descending&amp;sortBy=job-req-num&amp;location=&amp;menuPK=8453611&amp;JobType=Managerial&amp;JobGrade=GI" rel="nofollow">Governance</a>; <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=8454041&amp;piPK=8454059&amp;theSitePK=8453353&amp;JobNo=132484&amp;contentMDK=23158967&amp;order=descending&amp;sortBy=job-req-num&amp;location=&amp;menuPK=8453611&amp;JobType=Managerial&amp;JobGrade=GI" rel="nofollow">Health, Nutrition, and Population</a>; <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=8454041&amp;piPK=8454059&amp;theSitePK=8453353&amp;JobNo=132492&amp;contentMDK=23158967&amp;order=descending&amp;sortBy=job-req-num&amp;location=&amp;menuPK=8453611&amp;JobType=Managerial&amp;JobGrade=GI" rel="nofollow">Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management</a>; <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=8454041&amp;piPK=8454059&amp;theSitePK=8453353&amp;JobNo=132494&amp;contentMDK=23158967&amp;order=descending&amp;sortBy=job-req-num&amp;location=&amp;menuPK=8453611&amp;JobType=Managerial&amp;JobGrade=GI" rel="nofollow">Poverty</a>; <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=8454041&amp;piPK=8454059&amp;theSitePK=8453353&amp;JobNo=132489&amp;contentMDK=23158967&amp;order=descending&amp;sortBy=job-req-num&amp;location=&amp;menuPK=8453611&amp;JobType=Managerial&amp;JobGrade=GI" rel="nofollow">Social Protection and Labor</a>; <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=8454041&amp;piPK=8454059&amp;theSitePK=8453353&amp;JobNo=132498&amp;contentMDK=23158967&amp;order=descending&amp;sortBy=job-req-num&amp;location=&amp;menuPK=8453611&amp;JobType=Managerial&amp;JobGrade=GI" rel="nofollow">Trade and Competitiveness</a>; <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=8454041&amp;piPK=8454059&amp;theSitePK=8453353&amp;JobNo=132475&amp;contentMDK=23158967&amp;order=descending&amp;sortBy=job-req-num&amp;location=&amp;menuPK=8453611&amp;JobType=Managerial&amp;JobGrade=GI" rel="nofollow">Transport and Information Technology</a>; <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=8454041&amp;piPK=8454059&amp;theSitePK=8453353&amp;JobNo=132485&amp;contentMDK=23158967&amp;order=descending&amp;sortBy=job-req-num&amp;location=&amp;menuPK=8453611&amp;JobType=Managerial&amp;JobGrade=GI" rel="nofollow">Urban, Rural, and Social Development</a>; and <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=8454041&amp;piPK=8454059&amp;theSitePK=8453353&amp;JobNo=132491&amp;contentMDK=23158967&amp;order=descending&amp;sortBy=job-req-num&amp;location=&amp;menuPK=8453611&amp;JobType=Managerial&amp;JobGrade=GI" rel="nofollow">Water</a>.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 13 Nov 2013 20:43:00 +0000Keith Hansen2088 at http://blogs.worldbank.org/voicesLabbing and Learning: Scaling Innovation at the World Bank Grouphttp://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/labbing-and-learning-scaling-innovation-world-bank-group
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<em><img alt="" src="http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/files/voices/crowdsourcemaps.jpg" style="float:right; height:240px; margin-left:5px; margin-right:5px; width:372px" />Aleem Walji, director of the World Bank’s <a href="http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/approach/innovation" rel="nofollow">Innovation</a> Labs, recently gave an interview to <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/skollworldforum/2013/09/04/how-does-the-world-bank-think-about-scaling-innovation/" rel="nofollow">Forbes</a> and <a href="http://skollworldforum.org/2013/09/04/how-does-the-world-bank-think-about-innovation/" rel="nofollow">the Skoll World Forum</a> on all things innovation and development. This blog post highlights some of the key points from that interview. </em></p>
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When I joined the <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/" rel="nofollow">World Bank</a> at the end of 2009, I was asked how we could more systematically support innovation. We started by building on the Bank’s own “<a href="http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/PROJECTANDOPERATIONS/EXTINFODISCLOSURE/0,,menuPK:64864911~pagePK:4749265~piPK:4749256~theSitePK:5033734,00.html" rel="nofollow">access to information” policy</a>, which was foundational for our <a href="http://data.worldbank.org/" rel="nofollow">Open Data</a> initiative. When we made our data available to the world in a machine-readable format, searchable, and reusable, back in April 2010, people came in droves. Within months, we had more traffic to our <a href="http://data.worldbank.org/" rel="nofollow">data catalogue</a> than the World Bank homepage.</p>
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Another powerful insight we had was to link maps through “<a href="http://maps.worldbank.org/" rel="nofollow">Mapping for Results”</a> with poverty data and project results to show the relationship between where we lend, where poor people live, and the results of our work. While it may sound simple or obvious, even today development partners struggle to map the relationship between projects they fund and poverty indicators in a given country. We quickly realized the value of “mapping aid” and making aid data transparent and comparable. The <a href="http://www.openaidmap.org/" rel="nofollow">Open Aid Partnership</a> grew out of that impulse.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:50:00 +0000Aleem Walji1934 at http://blogs.worldbank.org/voicesLearning from Data-Driven Deliveryhttp://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/learning-data-driven-delivery
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Given confusion around the phrase “<a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/what-science-and-what-delivery" rel="nofollow">science of delivery</a>,” it’s important to state that delivery science is not a “one-size-fits-all” prescription based on the premise that what works somewhere can work anywhere. And it does not profess that research and evidence ensure a certain outcome.<br />
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A few weeks ago, the <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/" rel="nofollow">World Bank</a> and the <a href="http://www.kdi.re.kr/kdi_eng/main/main.jsp" rel="nofollow">Korea Development Institute</a> convened a global conference on the science of delivery. Several development institutions assembled including the <a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/" rel="nofollow">Gates Foundation</a>, the <a href="http://www.grameenfoundation.org/" rel="nofollow">Grameen Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.unicef.org/" rel="nofollow">UNICEF</a>, the <a href="http://tdchcds.dartmouth.edu/" rel="nofollow">Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science</a>, and the <a href="http://www.mhealthalliance.org/" rel="nofollow">mHealth Alliance</a>. We discussed development opportunities and challenges when focusing on the extremely poor, including experiments in health care, how technology is reducing costs and increasing effectiveness, and the difficulty of moving from successful pilots to delivery at scale.<br />
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The consensus in Seoul was that a science of delivery underscores the importance of a data-driven and rigorous process to understand what works, under what conditions, why, and how. Too often in international development, we jump to conclusions without understanding counterfactuals and assume we can replicate success without understanding its constituent elements.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 21:22:00 +0000Aleem Walji1904 at http://blogs.worldbank.org/voicesLongreads: Rise of Middle Class Jobs, ‘Real’ Birth of the Solar Industry, Ecosystem Modeling, Stranded on the Roof of the Worldhttp://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/longreads-rise-middle-class-jobs-solar-industry-ecosystem-modeling
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><i>Find a good longread on development? Tweet it to&nbsp;</i><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/worldbank"><i>@worldbank</i></a><i>&nbsp;with the hashtag #longreads.</i></p><p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/category/tags/longreads"><img src="http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/files/meetings/longreads-logo.jpg" alt="Longreads" align="right" height="210" width="280"></a>Middle class gained on Twitter, with many people taking note of Thomas Friedman’s <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/opinion/sunday/friedman-the-virtual-middle-class-rises.html?smid=tw-share">The Virtual Middle Class Rises</a>. Friedman’s op-ed is about how cheaper computing is enabling people who earn only a few dollars a day to access the “kind of technologies and learning previously associated solely with the middle class.” Such access is driving social change and social protest, he says. It’s a trend also observed by sociologist and author Saskia Sassen in an interview with The Hindu, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/interview/why-the-middle-class-is-revolting/article4299097.ece">Why the Middle Class is Revolting</a>, though Sassen’s vision is more pessimistic. Another trend—a&nbsp; sharp, decade-long rise in “middle class” jobs in developing countries—is enlarging the middle class in the developing world and promises ultimately to drive global growth, says the <a href="http://www.ilo.org/global/research/global-reports/global-employment-trends/2013/WCMS_202326/lang--en/index.htm">International Labour Organization in a new study</a>. &nbsp;ILO says nearly 1.1 billion workers (42%) earn between $4 and $13 a day, which is middle class wages in the developing world.&nbsp; The number of middle class workers in developing countries is expected to grow by 390 million to reach 51.9% by 2017. &nbsp;The report notes, however, that “progress in poverty reduction has slowed” and the number of “near poor” is growing. Also check out the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/datablog/2013/jan/30/developing-world-middle-class-growing">Guardian’s datablog</a> on the report.</p><p><a href="http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_202481/lang--en/index.htm"><img src="http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/files/meetings/workers-class-chart.jpg" alt="Workers by economic class, 1991-2011, developing world" height="341" width="450"></a><br> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Source: International Labour Organization</i></span></p><p></div></div></div>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:00:09 +0000Donna Barne1645 at http://blogs.worldbank.org/voicesAt TEDxSendai, Stories, Ideas, and Hope on Resilience After Disasterhttp://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/at-tedxsendai-stories-ideas-and-hope-on-resilience-after-disaster
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HQskwJSRecI?rel=0" frameborder="0" height="270" width="480"></iframe></p><p>SENDAI, JAPAN | When natural disasters hit, the bonds of community are what fuel the push to rebuild.</p><p>Governments and others should help instill resiliency into the social fabric of communities – in addition to the usual resources -- so that when disasters happen, recovery is within reach.</p><p>That was the message echoed by several speakers at <a href="http://www.tedxsendai.com/index.html">TEDxSendai</a>, a dialogue on natural disasters set amid an area of Japan hard hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.</p><p></div></div></div>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:53:51 +0000Ravi Kumar1530 at http://blogs.worldbank.org/voicesHow about Evidence-based Policy at the Bottom of the Pyramid?http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/evidence-based-policy-bottom-of-pyramid
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:15:34 +0000Francesca Recanatini1376 at http://blogs.worldbank.org/voicesAn Insider's View: What's on the Agenda at the International Corruption Hunters Alliance?http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/insiders-view-international-corruption-hunters-alliance
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<p><strong>Jean Ping, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, at the <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0,,contentMDK:22555969~menuPK:258657~pagePK:2865106~piPK:2865128~theSitePK:258644,00.html">World Bank/IMF&nbsp;Spring Meetings on April 23, 2010</a>:</strong></p>
<p><em>&quot;ICTs [Information and Communications Technology] can be the single most important tool of our generation if given the right environment.&quot;</em></p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:22:18 +0000Sameer Vasta613 at http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices